Category Archives: Asides

Interesting links.

Cuil

July 28, 2008Asidescuil, Google, search enginesMatt

I like Cuil. There’s just something very intuitive about the interface that fels comfortable to me, but I’m not sure how to articulate it. And it’s fast! Going to try it out as my default search engine for the next few days. Downside? Sometimes the images seem completely random, and I do see some spam in the index.

Beyond REST? XMPP

July 26, 2008Asidesflickr, kellan, rest, xmppMatt

Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP. Pretty fascinating stuff.

WordCamp Signup Open

July 25, 2008AsidesWordCamp, wordcampsf2008Matt

WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Signup. Signup is now open for WordCamp SF, and it’s $5 cheaper than last year even though we’re at a bigger venue (with more comfortable seats, based on your feedback) and should be packing more awesomeness. Who’s going to be speaking on what? Well that’s still a surprise. 🙂

WordPress Geniuses

July 25, 2008Asideslloyd budd, WordCamp, wordcampsf2008, WordPressMatt

Geniuses for WordCamp SF Bar?. Lloyd is organizing a “Genius bar” at WordCamp San Francisco of volunteers to help everybody with their WP problems. I love it!

Caloric Restriction Pill

July 24, 2008Asidesdiet, health, WiredMatt

Caloric Restriction Comes in a Pill.

WordPress for iPhone!

July 22, 2008AsidesApple, iphone, WordPressMatt

WordPress for iPhone Available Now. :)! Reviews coming in: WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably late.

Favorite Women Bloggers?

July 18, 2008AsidesMatt

Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers?

In SF Chronicle

July 17, 2008AsidespressMatt

There’s an article about me in the San Francisco Chronicle, written by Chris Cadelago. It’s a good mainstream summary of what’s been going on the past few years. Chris talked to almost everyone I know, including getting Toni’s opinion of my car. You can, of course, get a paper copy in SF today.

Dr. Horrible

July 15, 2008AsidesMatt

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a project from Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris.

2.6 and Cookies

July 14, 2008AsidesMatt

WordPress 2.6 is out and it’s a really solid release, so check it out. Ryan has a good post on SSL and Cookies in WP 2.6. My congrats go out to the whole team for putting together the release, ahead of schedule! Update: Joseph has some info on XML-RPC and Atom changes.

Transition to Electric

July 13, 2008AsidesMatt

Our Electric Future?, by Andy Grove formerly of Intel.

Pimping Firefox

July 11, 2008AsidesMatt

Tim Ferriss writes Pimping Firefox: The Basics (Matt Mullenweg, Garrett Camp, and More). Includes my 5 favorite extensions.

iPhone-native WordPress Client

July 10, 2008AsidesMatt

We’re doing an iPhone-native WordPress client, check out the screencast here. It will work for both .com and .org, be available FREE from the App Store, and best of all it’s going to be completely Open Source, which
as far as I know no current apps in the store are. Update: Good news, sounds like there will be at least a few OS apps in the store on opening days.

Unofficial International WordPress Day

July 1, 2008AsidesMatt

Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day. It’s an honor to have such a supportive community, and things like this are very much appreciated.

WordPress / Yahoo Brickhouse Meetup

June 30, 2008AsidesMatt

If you’re in the San Francisco area join us at the Yahoo! Brickhouse for a WordPress meetup this Wednesday. This’ll actually be my first time at the Brickhouse, but I hear they have some mean Wii players.

Top Gear on WordPress

June 22, 2008AsidesMatt

For the Top Gear fans out there, the new Top Gear blog is the latest WordPress.com VIP. Vroom!

Kindle Thoughts

June 20, 2008AsidesMatt

Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle. I agree with most of this. I’ve been meaning to write a Kindle review forever. I’m probably not going to get to it, but I will say that it has fundamentally changed the way I read and buy books. It has also increased my book reading a non-trivial amount.